Fraser Coast Holidays - Great Sandy National Park
North of Noosa National Park on Sunshine
Coast
is the southern section of Great Sandy National Park and Rainbow Beach
which is famous for its coloured sands.

North from here is the quiet
town Maryborough
with its
beautiful Victorian buildings, Bond Store Museum, Brolga Theatre and
the Queens Park with a miniature railway. Places to stay include Arkana
Motel, Best
Western Kimba Lodge Motel, Comfort
Inn Blue Shades, Eurong
Beach Resort, Maryborough
City Motel, Maryborough
Motel and Conference Centre, McNevins
Parkway Motel, and Mineral
Sands Motel.

Maryborough. by jason nahrung via Flickr.com

Fraser Coast Holidays - Hervey Bay Australia
Further north on the Fraser Coast is Hervey
Bay, most famous for whale
watching between July and October. Other
things to do in town are the Hervey Bay Natureworld with the most
popular Australian animals, shows and tours; Neptune’s Reef World with
marine creatures in an aquarium and Hervey Bay Historical Museum.

Hervey Bay. By AllPosters.
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Fraser Island Great Barrier Reef
Hervey Bay is also the gateway to Fraser
Island – world's largest sand island which
forms the northern section of Great Sandy National Park with sand
dunes, rainforests, freshwater lakes, bushwalking tracks and drivable
(4WD only) beaches with wild dingos.

In the southern part of the island there
are several short bushwalks from the Central Station to Lake McKenzie,
Lake Wabby, Lake Boomanjin, Lake Birrabeen, and Kingfisher Bay where
there are shops and petrol stations.

Fraser Island. By AllPosters.
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Fraser Island Information - Fraser Coast Holidays
You can drive along the eastern coast on beaches, where there is Happy
Valley - a town with shops and a petrol station; Eli Creek, Maheno
Wreck (there are many shipwrecks along the coast of
Fraser
Island – just like along some coasts of mainland Australia); and north
of it are the colourful pinnacles. Further north are Waddy Point with
great views over the ocean (great for whale
watching activities between July and October), and Orchid
Beach,
the northernmost accessible settlement on the island.

Fraser Island. By AllPosters.
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Fraser Coast Holidays - Childers Queensland
Back on the Fraser coast on the mainland, north-west of Hervey Bay is
Childers, a
small town with
historical buildings and the Childers
Pharmaceutical Museum and Art Gallery.

Childers is popular with
backpackers staying here while working
fruit-picking on the surrounding farms.

Childers. by jemasmith via Flickr.com

Fraser Coast Holidays - Childers Backpackers Fire Memorial
In 2000, a fire killed 15 backpackers at the Palace Hostel – today
there is a Childers Backpackers Fire Memorial with photos and the
story. A place to stay is Childers
Gateway Motor Inn.

Childers. by jemasmith via Flickr.com
Fraser Coast Holidays - Bundaberg Australia
North of Childers is Bundaberg
– a centre of the surrounding sugar cane
country, with the Fairymead House Sugar Museum and Hinkler House Museum
(both in the Botanical Gardens); and the Alexandra Park and Zoo where
you can see Australian
animals.

Mon Repos Turtle Rookery
Another famous place on the Fraser Coast is Mon Repos
Turtle
Rookery south of Bundaberg. Mon Repos is the most
accessible
turtle
rookery
in Australia where large female loggerhead turtles come
to the beach to lay their eggs between November and February, and the
young hatch between mid-January and March. Access to the beach is
controlled by park rangers during the season,
but they allow visitor groups to watch the turtles during the night
after
7pm.

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Here's a Fraser Coast map, where I have
tagged the
places that I mentioned on this web page. You can click on the tags to
see what places they are, and double-click anywhere on the map to zoom
it in and see the places closer. Drag the map to move around, and if
you want to see the satellite image with Google Earth, click on "Sat"
in the top right hand corner.

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